January 3, 2020
The 6,828 occurrences of YHVH never appear as kurios mou (my lord) in the LXX, the Greek version of the NT which is very frequently cited […]
January 3, 2020
The Hebrews and Greeks did indeed have a word for a person. It is the word we most often see translated as “soul.” When the Bible […]
January 3, 2020
The Father is called “the one God” or “the only God” at least 30 times by John in his Gospel! For example, in the classic, clear […]
February 3, 2020
The idea of God as a little baby is one of the most disruptive theological suggestions ever made by Giles Fraser Christmas can be a bad […]
February 3, 2020
1st-century Judaism knew a good deal of speculation about hero figures who had been exalted to heaven and given some participation in God‘s judgment, e.g., Enoch, […]
February 3, 2020
The reason why God granted Jesus unprecedented authority was not just that he was the promised Jewish Messiah, uniquely authorized agent of God; but more precisely […]
February 29, 2020
From the Anchor Bible Dictionary article on “Incarnation.” Does the authority expressed by Jesus not carry with it an implicit claim to incarnation? The But I […]
February 29, 2020
In Psalm 89:19 David is called Gibbor, Mighty. Other human beings like the men of David in 2 Sam 23.8 and kings are called mighty as […]
February 29, 2020
by John Yates, 1816. The unity of God, as one individual person, is denoted throughout the Bible by the almost constant use of singular pronouns, whenever […]
March 31, 2020
Many assume that the “word” in John 1:1 is a person because in Greek logos is grammatically a masculine gender noun (logos) accompanied by masculine pronouns […]
March 31, 2020
From The Anchor Bible Dictionary article on “God,” God in the NT, by Joulette M. Bassler. 1. The One God. Many of the functions of God—creative […]
March 31, 2020
By James McGrath, The Only True God, p 74f. The sacrificial worship due to God alone is thus not shared in Revelation. What is shared are […]